{"id":5641,"date":"2017-09-05T16:16:18","date_gmt":"2017-09-05T20:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=5641"},"modified":"2017-09-05T16:16:18","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T20:16:18","slug":"local-firm-works-on-game-of-thrones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=5641","title":{"rendered":"Local firm works on Game of Thrones"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"copy-snippet fontset1 scale3\">\n<article class=\"art\">\n<header>\n<hgroup>\n<h4 data-bind=\"text: articleTitle\">RODEO FX HEATS UP THE SCREEN<\/h4>\n<\/hgroup>\n<ul class=\"art-byline\">\n<li class=\"art-date\">Montreal Gazette\u00a0 <time data-bind=\"text: shortDateString\">5 Sep 2017<\/time><\/li>\n<li class=\"art-author\" data-bind=\"text: byline\">JACOB SEREBRIN jserebrin@postmedia.com<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/header>\n<figure class=\"art-pic\">\n<p><figure style=\"width: 432px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"articleImage\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn2-img.pressreader.com\/pressdisplay\/docserver\/getimage.aspx?regionKey=hUvT08BlGgo9us%2beYvINsQ%3d%3d\" alt=\"\" width=\"432\" height=\"290\" data-bind=\"attr: { src: imageUrl }\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">JOHN MAHONEY These 3D-printed stallions helped S\u00e9bastien Moreau\u2019s company, Rodeo FX, create effects for the television show Game of Thrones.<\/figcaption><\/figure><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div data-bind=\"foreach: articleBlocks\">\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">The final episode of the most recent season of Game of Thrones ends with a dragon destroying a location that has played a major role in the plot of the popular TV show.<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">Behind the scenes, making the destruction look real, was Montreal-based Rodeo FX.<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">The company has been working on visual effects for Game of Thrones for four years \u2014 creating and destroying cities; making dragons breathe fire and oceans boil; and bringing thousands of extras to life through digital effects. For three years in a row, it\u2019s won Emmy Awards for its work on the show.<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">While Game of Thrones isn\u2019t in the running for any Emmys this year \u2014 the seventh season premi\u00e8red too late in the year \u2014 Rodeo FX is nominated for its work on another show, Black Sails.<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">\u201cVisual effects are becoming more and more important in the film industry and TV industry, the budgets are growing,\u201d said S\u00e9bastien Moreau, the company\u2019s founder and president.<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">At any given time, the company is working on between six and 10 projects, many of them major Hollywood films. The studio recently spent two years working on Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, which came out in July. It also worked on an adaptation of Stephen King \u2019s It, which comes out in September, and the upcoming Blade Runner 2049, directed by Quebecer Denis Villeneuve.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">Moreau got his start in the visual effects business working as an artist, first in Montreal and then in California, where he worked for Industrial Light and Magic, a visual effects company founded by George Lucas. In 2006, he came back to Montreal and started Rodeo FX.<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">At that time, the company was just three people in a basement.<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">Industrial Light and Magic was one of its first clients but, over the years, it\u2019s built relationships, and a reputation, with studios, reducing the amount of work it does as subcontractor in favour of work it gets directly.<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">\u201cIn our industry, we say \u2018we\u2019re a<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">s good as our last project,\u2019 so we always have to be better and better on every project,\u201d Moreau said.<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">By the end of this year, Rodeo FX plans to employ 450 people. It\u2019s opened offices in Quebec City and Los Angeles. An office in Munich, Germany is in the works.<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">Rodeo FX\u2019s growth comes as the industry itself is growing in Montreal. Since 2009, Montreal\u2019s visual effects industry has grown by 27 per cent a year, according to the Quebec Film and Television Council.<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">In 2016, it received around $278 million in contracts, spread across 187 projects. That growth sometimes makes hiring difficult. While Rodeo FX has hired most of its staff locally, Moreau said the company looks around the world for talent.<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">\u201cWe would love to hire as much as possible locally, but unfortunately, the schools are not producing enough students,\u201d Moreau said.<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">While much of what Rodeo FX cr<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">eates comes straight out of the imagination, Jordan Soles, the company\u2019s vice-president of development and technology, said it often looks to the real world for inspiration. To create creatures for the Harry Potter spinoff Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, the company \u2019s VFX artists created amalgamations of real animals.<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">\u201cThe reason that\u2019s important is that allows us to start taking a look at videos of how they move or how they act and begin to start piecing together how to build something like that,\u201d Soles said. \u201cWe do the same thing with effects, too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">For a destruction scene in a recen<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">t episode of a popular TV show, the Rodeo FX team watched videos of icebergs breaking apart and created physical mock-ups.<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">\u201cThe references are really, really important to get,\u201d Moreau said, \u201cfor the movement, for the lighting, for the photorealism, for everything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">But it\u2019s not just making things that don\u2019t exist in the real world or that would be too expensive to film.<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of visual effects that people wouldn\u2019t even know, they\u2019re just truly invisible,\u201d Soles said. \u201cWe know that we\u2019ve achieved what we wanted to achieve when you\u2019ve watched a scene and paid attention to the story and you didn\u2019t pay attention to the fact that there\u2019s literally nothing other than the two actors talking, that everything else doesn\u2019t exist, it\u2019s a giant green screen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">Sometimes, the company may have to turn day int<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">o night or change the colour of the leaves in a scene that\u2019s set in the spring but was filmed in the fall.<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">\u201cWe can do anything,\u201d Moreau said. \u201cWe can make anything look real, there\u2019s no limit to what we can do. 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